Yes, there really is Lion Jerky. I’ve seen it!
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That is a lot of dosh. Either there’s more to Mike than he lets on, or he’s sufficiently paranoid to have stashed away several grand in a suitcase “just in case”.
That’s not just ‘several grand’.. If those are standard bank bundles, of a hundred bills in each band, we can see at least $17K on this top layer alone! if the bag is filled with money, and I would guess it is as I wouldn’t put the money on top, I’d put it underneath.. We’re possibly looking at a quarter Mil there. Not your average paranoid’s ‘mad money’ stash.
So I’m with you on the ‘There’s more to Mike’ theory.
Gasp! Forget the money! He has DUAL registration on his car in Illinois AND Missouri! Oh, he must be some sort of covert super-spy.
Die Jesse White Illinois secretary of state, die!
What’s wrong with Jesse? He’s one of the few people in Illinois government you never here anything about.
So how long does everybody think Kate is not going to say anything about everything she is finding? I am guessing we will hear about it next week
lol loin jerky. but i think it would take a bit more then that to keep her fed.
the papers would be from the stolen car.
between his background and the way he is i could see mike being prepared for having to leave in a hurry. he’s not in the business of making friends after all.
i have a few ideas as to what else he might have packed but i don’t know the area so i could be way off.
I do not believe it is a stolen car. If you look at the registration it is owned by a company. The company probably is owned by friends of Mike, like the one who works at the restaurant. There probably is more to this company and Mike’s relationship with it. Hopefully more will be revealed later. Or I might just be making an observation that has nothing to do with the story line.
My first idea was that Mike has been having friends in low places… possibly some crook who owes him a favor for the duo not digging up all matter of stuff. You know, the kind who you might not have enough on for a prison sentence, but you certainly have enough on to make their lif miserable.
Sure, it could be from his more law-abiding friends, but that wouldn’t be as fun
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So I’m not the only one who laughed at the “Lion Jerky”. did you have someone in mind when you put that in? Or did you just like the play on words? ^_^
Hmmm. Looks like Mike has some “splainin’ to do!
oh, this explanation is going to be a dandy!
Never leave a bored cop alone in a getaway car.
True it won’t keep her filled up, but beef jerky is hard to chew, so she”ll spend a long time trying to eat it. And for a girl that eats so much, instant and long term pacificer.
Thats being prepared for the strech. But for how long? They always find you in the end. How long will the money business last for till it runs dry? We’ll wate and see.
Hmmm – Lion Jerky…
But is that a brand, or an ingredient?
I’d be lion if I said I knew.
Congrats on the book sales, Dirk! Earned and deserved, Dude.
Ingredient. Seriously.
Thanks, man! I’m completely floored about it. 1000 books in less than a year. Can you believe it?
Yes! We can!!
I can only wish I was one of ‘em.
Eventually, I guess…
You be dead by then Blackwolfe. End your wishing now before it becomes your undoing.
Twenty bucks says he’s got a matching ID for every paper; it makes me wonder if he’s got qualifying IDs for Kate, too. They don’t look a thing alike so I’d imagine she’d be considered a significant other to anyone who asked. Heh…*THAT* I’d like to see. I can just imagine Kate’s expression to Mike when they’re alone again…..wouldn’t be the money or the fakes or even the cash she questions first…..
I’d also like to say congrats on the 1k book milestone, Dirk! And I’m in agreement with the theory of Mike being prepared – maybe he was a Boy Scout, y’know? That, and who knows what kind of hijinks he got into before he joined CPD?
I don’t think lion would taste very good. Ostrich and gator is good,though! O v O
“Won Tai Sin”… interesting name. “Wong Tai Sin” is the name of a Chinese deity (and of a district in Hong Kong which has a temple to him). I wonder if there’s a connection?
=O
i had the same reaction as kate reading this. wth mike?
Jessie White, [something] Secretary of State?
Could not figure out the small letters due to the lower resolution of the image but something about that car doesn’t ring right.
That should read “Jesse White, Illinois Secretary of State”
Been following this comic for a while now, and it’s always kept me gripped. Good job, Dirk… you’ve got a fan in Barbados: Yes, that little dot in the Caribbean somewhere, grab an atlas.
@Hinalover: Your missing [something] is Illinois, making those two registrations for neighboring states. Unless they’re more hidden somewhere I’m guessing somewhere in Missouri is as far as Mike plans to go for now, at least with that car.
At first assumption, one would think that the company that the car is registered to a shell company of one of the Triad groups operating in America, but previous chapters would hint at the fact that Mike wouldn’t willingly work on the side of crime. Whatever it is, that link is deeply rooted in Mike’s past, which Kate has always been interested in. Tense moments in that car are ahead, but I think it will eventually serve to build the level of trust between the two of them. Kate would probably never freely admit it, but right now, Mike is her humanity anchor, and she’ll need to know that if she can’t trust herself, at least she can trust him.
Aside from all of these strange occurrences, I’m still somewhat waiting for the breakdown that is bound to happen when Kate tries a St. Louis style pizza (Imo’s) over in those parts…. Judging by the mix of seriousness and lighthearted humor, methinks this may possibly come up if she sticks around in that area for any extended time. The cards joke stand towards that in the previous page.
As for the car and the money, perhaps Mike’s just overly prepared, or maybe he has a past of having gotten someone out of a serious situation… who knows. Kate needs to stick with him to survive, unless her feline friend from the military makes an appearance. What’s for certain is we’re bound to find out as mister Tiede fleshes out this arc of the story.
Also, the Lion Jerky made me giggle, Dirk.
Forget that. Wait until she’s out-of-state and orders a Chicago-style pizza, only to get one cut into squares for some inexplicable reason. How “Chicago style” came to mean “cut into squares” when it should mean “more delicious than should be allowed and capable of making cardboard translucent” is beyond me.
Pizza is pizza to me. But then again the pizza’s from the big apple are the founders of American pizza. So give it a try. And tell me.
Well, you can still get a Chicago style pizza in St Louis, but I think it’d be hilarious if she got one of the super-thin-crust pizzas cut square with provel cheese… I can just imagine her complaining about how it tastes like cardboard smothered in ketchup and then Velveeta.
It would be cooked by a coal fired ovan. Thats the old fassion way of doing it. The great pizza debate begins. Dirk if you respond to this It would be nice. But if you want to put “**” in it. It has to come from one of them Directly. And there are comic artists who acculy did that let one of the stars of that comic have there say with it. You should do the same. It would be nice for a change.
it is well documented that Earnest Hemingway and his wife Mary ate lion whilst on his second, and last, African Safari…then were questioned by the writers of the day when Mary began an extended argument via letter with a particular one over the barbaric act of eating lion. This story does not end well I’m afraid.
How did you get this story might I ask?
I didn’t think Katie would be the type to have her nails done…
Mike doesn’t trust the federal government and doesn’t like covert operations, probably from his time in the Gulf. Maybe something happened over there that caused him to always have a contingency plan for fleeing and dropping off the grid. He hasn’t acted like he’s always looking over his shoulder, though.
Maybe “later” is coming soon, and he’s going to describe the bug that was up his ass: http://www.paradigmshiftmanga.com/ps/ps3-page36.html
Just finished reading the three books, and I plan on reading them again in a few months. Nice job with them
I’ve recently seen a jerky stand in a local mall with kangaroo, ostrich and croc jerkey!